This day in Anarchist History, Nov 18th 1918 we remember the Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection.
In the months leading up to the Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection, anarchists had been planning to overthrow the Brazilian state by building a broad coalition of workers and unions.
Their one fatal flaw was counting on low level military to join them and their attack failed because of a snitch within those ranks.
Because of it’s ultimate failure, this lead to an age of increased repression of anarchism in the territories controlled by the state of Brazil.